Thursday, November 06, 2014

It's been a while since I have written. I thought I said it all; educated you to the dangers of partisan politics and expected you to go to the polls enlightened enough to make choices that would help improve what is wrong with government.

Then the mid-term elections took place. After I came back from the acute case of shock induced depression brought on by the recent romping that the Democrats got from the Republicans, I began to ponder what just happened.

For every enlightened voter out there, there are just a few more who are blind to the devious ways of the Republican party. Just enough low information voters to give Republicans an advantage in mid-term elections with low voter turn-out. Although the general public has rated our modern "do-nothing" Congress with only 13% favorability, it appears they do not know who the real culprits are. I used to think that America blamed both parties equally. Now I understand that America only blames Democrats. Nothing could be further from the truth. Republicans purposely caused the failure of the government in order to deceive voters that the party holding the office of the President, cannot accomplish anything.

Many voters think that all failure and blame lands on the President and his party. Republican strategists and Mitch McConnell himself understood this and used it to their advantage. Before the President was inaugerated in 2009, Mitch and his band of Republican strategists met to take advantage of it. See the evidence in an article from Time magazine here. The plan they created was to obstruct every major piece of legislation that Democrats and the President wanted. In this way, Mitch and his malcontents knew that the President would not be given any credit for any accomplishment. This would strengthen Republican potential to win future elections. They did this in plain view of the public and yet too few noticed it happening. They did it to the detriment of America for political gain and got rewarded for it in the end. Their obstruction has gone on for years now.

Republicans kept deceiving the public at a rapid clip with continuous lies about the President. During the 2012 Presidential campaign, Republicans used lies as a campaign strategy. They blamed Obama for telling business owners that they did not create their business. A complete fabrication intended to mislead the public. They took the President's words out of context to make it appear he said denigrating things against all Americans. They spoke of how damaging Obamacare was without justification and voted to repeal it over fifty times. Republicans even denied medicaid expansion without reason in most Republican run states to attempt to encourage it's demise and deny healthcare to millions of Americans.

Conservative "news" shows kept slamming the President with false accusations, appealing to their audiences baser emotions, using fear mongering, appealing to racism and spreading lies to confuse the public. They blamed Obama for everything. If Ebola got into the country on the backs of ISIS it would be Obama's fault.

Republican leaders like Michele Bachman lied to the public about Obamacare death panels. Republicans closed the government and blamed the Democrats while Republican leaders took photo-ops with veterans at closed government federal parks and facilities pretending that the GOP was outraged that the government was closed. Republican led witch-hunts by Congressional committees to hear about the so-called involvement of the President or his cabinet members in Benghazi, the IRS tax exemption decisions, and other fabricated scandals were done not to get at the truth, but instead to confuse the voting public and spread lies about the President and his cabinet.

Republican voting shows them to be against the poor and middle class, veterans, the elderly, women, students and labor. Their budget proposal shows that they have plans to increase the wealth of the super-rich while taking from the middle class to accomplish it.

And this strategy worked. America blamed the Democrats and rewarded Republicans bad behavior by electing them into power. There is only one deceiver I can think of who might be on par with the deception of the Republican party and that horned demon might actually be behind all of this. Nothing else makes as much sense.